Public Domain
The Indian Brothers
1911 · Biograph Company · Dir. D.W. Griffith
A renegade Indian kills a chief who has insulted him. The chief's brother swears vengeance and pursues the renegade, overtaking him just in time to rescue him from another tribe who are angry with him for stealing a horse.
Confidence
100
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Why this status applies
This short film was directed by D. W. Griffith and released by the Biograph Company in July 1911. Under the United States Copyright Act of 1909 and subsequent extensions, all works published or registered before January 1, 1928, have entered the public domain.
Because the film was released in 1911, its maximum possible copyright term of 75 years (extended by the 1976 Act) would have expired in 1986. Even under current laws, any work published before 1928 is definitively in the public domain in the United States. No renewal analysis is required for films of this age.
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